Three sightings of a big and black feline beast have been been reported in just one week in Cornwall by seven unrelated holidaymakers.

The wild animal has been spotted in north Cornwall, around St Tudy, Bodmin, and Rock. It was even spotted twice, by completely different people at St Minver Holiday Park.

Martin Whitehouse, manager of the park's shop, contacted Cornwall Live to report the spooky sightings.

"An elderly gentleman told me that last night around 6.30pm his daughter and another girl, possibly a friend or sister, saw a big black cat in front of their caravan while on their way back to it," the 55-year-old explained.

"It was higher than the bottom of the caravan, more than two feet high. The animal stopped and looked at them. Then it started walking, didn't run off but slowly slunk off behind the caravan and through the hedge."

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June Fry, from Wiltshire, was staying at Trevenning Barn for a one-week holiday with her husband, her sister and her brother-in-law when they spotted a similar creature.

The 79-year-old said: "I returned from a week's stay near the village of St Tudy at the weekend. Coming home from Port Isaac one day in the late afternoon, we were navigating the narrow lanes on the way back to our holiday home, all intently watching where we were going because it was so narrow and winding.

"When we saw the beast we were all taken by surprise. It was not a deer, not a fox, not a dog.

Road to Trevenning Barn, where four people spotted a similar creature (Image: Google)

"It was totally black, with a feline shape, but big.

"We didn't see its head because it heard us coming and started to go away."

Mrs Fry said that the holidaymakers mentioned the episode to a couple of people, without getting any reply. But when they talked about it the the proprietor of the holiday home, he said that he was not surprised.

"He said that the last time he heard such a report, it was probably in the spring," she explained.

"We got quite excited by the discovery. We were scared because the wild animal was running away and we were in the car.

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A spokesman from the RSPCA told Cornwall Live that no similar sighting had been reported to it.

She said: "We've not had any calls about anything like this.

"Anyone who is concerned about the welfare of any animal is asked to contact the RSPCA on 0300 1234 999."

Over the years, similar sightings have been reported and many believe that the creatures' description was matching that of the Beast of Bodmin, a phantom wild cat haunting Bodmin Moor, which was first spotted in 1983.